OUTER ENCLOSURES
ACROSS
1 Roosters’ homes
6 Hero sellers
11 Part of FWIW
14 Opera phantom’s instrument 15 Eligible for “The Biggest Loser” 16 Word with a Homer head-slap 17 Signal of imminent danger
19 Raided the fridge
20 Place for a cheat’s ace
21 Did caricatures
23 Word on a librar y bookmark
25 Zips along
26 Rule against
30 Sewn border
31 Pricey topping for crackers
32 A low-flow toilet can lower it
37 Knocks out, in a way
39 Word before elephant or flu
40 “Sounds good!”
41 Start of a spring thaw, perhaps
43 Drop a pop-up, say
44 Get into character
45 Successful on one’s own
49 Bandmate of Lennon
52 In need of Icy Hot
53 Many vacation houses 57 Comes clean, with “up” 61 Underground resource
62 Pea concealer, in a con game
64 Letters on Forever stamps
65 Rides for celebs
66 Perfume ritually
67 ___ Swifty (bit of wordplay)
68 Ski resort near Montpelier
69 Threw in DOWN
1 Animals that stood erect in “The Far Side”
2 Like a campfire story
3 Mythical meanie
4 ___ Bread (bakery-cafe chain) 5 Whine like a weakling 6 Shelter rescue, perhaps 7 Weakens, as support 8 Vegetable in the onion family 9 Cruise itinerary listing
10 Mixer that came in siphon bottles 11 State bordering British Columbia 12 Clan emblem 13 Loses a winter coat 18 McCoy of country music
22 Jazz trio, say
24 Use a divining rod
26 Gunslinger’s dare
27 Sioux City’s state
28 Carnac the Magnificent, e.g.
29 Banshees’ cries
30 Barnyard brooder
33 Campfire stories
34 Seller of Kallax shelves
35 Pork fatback product
36 Harp’s ancestor
38 Like some phones or cards
39 Quick to catch on
42 Writes like the stereotypical doctor
46 Place for hay
47 Limegrapefruit diet drink
48 Worked together perfectly
49 Merit badge recipient
50 Line in the game of hangman
51 First-string squad
54 A podiatrist may analyze it 55 Grover’s red Muppet pal
56 Surface at 68-Across
58 Fax button
59 “You’re something ___!”
60 Coaster on
56-Down
63 Play for a sucker